I think about my employer, which is one of the largest in my area. No shareholders. It’s a healthcare non-profit.

The services they provide still cost money, because they have to pay employees, vendors, rent, etc. However, the only profit motive is to ensure that they have sufficient income continue to provide healthcare to the community and grow too support more patients.

I guess Habitat for Humanity would count as non-profit home construction. Are there non-profit farms?

Yep. Andrew Johnson. If he had been removed via impeachment, the southern seeds of fascism could have been executed like the traitors they were.

In addition, Nixon probably would have been a hell of a lot more careful because impeachment wouldn’t have been a merely theoretical possibility.

Each failed impeachment further cements the idea that presidents are untouchable, leading up to the current situation.

Like all Trump supporters, they each think they are the one he isn’t going to screw over.

It really is always projection, isn’t it?

I wasn’t really intending to suggest it was equivalent. I was just thinking of something we could almost universally agree shouldn’t be permitted… but probably would be by the current administration.

In effect, I was reaching for the absurd. If it was a free speech issue, then a Nazi flag would be just as protected.

Acknowledging people exist isn’t political.

It would be much a nicer world to live in if that was true.

EVERYTHING is political, and we live in a world where fascists make existence a political issue.

While I think this government is loaded with pedophile scum and they should all be shot out of a canon into the sun, I don’t think this is a first amendment rights violation.

If the person in question had been fired for hanging a pride flag in his apartment window, that would be a violation of his first amendment rights. However putting it on his desk in a federal office building is different.

The federal government shouldn’t be seen as endorsing any particular view. Unfortunately, if some homophobic dickhead needs to talk to an agent, they shouldn’t be concerned about whether the agent will treat them differently.

The scum running the FBI likely wouldn’t care if someone was displaying a Nazi flag on their desk, but they’d probably be forced to respond.

Or maybe not.

In my experience, it is also an indication that they want to blame someone else for their actions.

I worked a job where when one of the team moved on, we’d all pitch in to keep things running while management would work to fill the vacancy. Management would work fast, and we’d fairly quickly get a new person.

When I moved to my next job, I automatically started busting my ass trying to get things done. My new coworkers had to take me aside and point out that there was no help coming. They weren’t going to hire anyone to help, and if I killed myself trying to keep things working, they might not even hire someone to replace me.

After years of us complaining that we needed more people, management decided to bring in a consultant to review our work, evaluate the department, and report on what actions, if any, were necessary. It was fairly clear that management expected the experts to report that we had enough staff.

After interviewing everyone and shadowing us while we worked, they reported that for the size of the organization and the amount of work we were doing, and comparing our staff to staff at similar organizations, we should have had at least twice as many people on our team.

To their credit, this served as a wakeup call to administration. They realized that they needed to take steps to correct the staffing, and also realized how lucky they were to have the staff they had to keep things running. That was over 20 years ago, and things have continued to improve.